Quote: (02-11-2013 10:41 AM)Ovid Wrote:
The reason why "classical liberalism" is now seen as right wing/paleoconservative is not because it has changed, but rather because society has shifted so far to the left...
Politics in this country has shifted far to the RIGHT in this country. Nixon would be considered a leftist and is probably left of Obama on a lot of issues.
Society has become more permissive, at the same time...
"Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact."
"Want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman!"
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time."
Balzac, Physiology of Marriage